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I wish they had stuck to the regular shape with rounded edges. Not a fan of the angular body edges with bindings. I also wonder what happened to their Mustang plans from some time ago and how it changed to a shortscale Jazz all of a sudden 😄 (screenshot is from 19th of March 2019)

Definitely this 🙂

I've owned two and loved them. I've had no trouble cutting through a mix and have used them both in a wide range of styles from pop covers to metalcore. They have quite an effective EQ, and aside from the external controls the tone of the pickups themselves can be fine-tuned too. There are two trim pots in the electronics cavity that let you adjust the amount of "humbucking" by blending in the second coil of each pickup. This is subtle, but audible.

This one gained quite some internet fame: The Lack table apparently has its legs exactly 19" apart.

My contribution: I actually own this (but lefty, of course). It looks ridiculous and is really weird and uncomfortable to play due to no neck profile whatsoever, but it's loads of fun. And actually surprisingly well-made! Recessed monorail bridges, strings-through-body, custom-made stacked humbucker pickups per string and a real bone nut. It sounds remarkably like an upright bass with flatwounds.

This is not going to help then: I've owned two LB75's and a B4, and with the exception of my second LB75 they have all been great. I bought all of them used, resale value on used Carvins = crap. My DC727 came from Gumtree and belonged to Joaquin Ardiles of Good Tiger, formerly of The Safety Fire. My first LB75 (all-black, ebony board, J-MM pickups) I bought here on Basschat for a very low price because it had some damage to the finish. My B4 also came from Basschat. My latest LB75 was customized, and I didn't like it. Beautiful flamed walnut top and a hidden neck-through, but it just didn't feel right. The previous owner had the lacquer on the neck removed and the neck profile shaved and then tung-oiled, and failed to mention this in the ad. Was a very unpleasant surprise when I found out, and since then the bass just didn't feel right to me.

Not my photo, but very much my guitar: It's a Carvin DC727. Controls are volume (push-pull for passive), passive tone, active two-band EQ, 3-way pickup selector, coil split for each pickup individually, and a phase switch. Very versatile guitar, huge range of tones!

On the old ones it should be engraved in the string clamp at the top of the neck.

That would be the Series 4000, with the composite bodies. They were available in black, but they had J-style pickups and were bolt-on and you can clearly tell the neck pocket from the front. They also had much simpler controls than the S2000.

The name is odd, they've been using that for several years for one of their fullblown metal guitars and this bass is something entirely different. They have absolutely nothing in common. I'm not a big fan of the headstock either, or the pickguard design. I'd rather get a Reverend Wattplower.

I thought the Eclipse always had the more rounded shape, but this one has the classic S2 body shape. It also appears to be either neck-through or one-piece, as the neck does not continue below the end of the fingerboard whereas on a bolt-on like the Eclipse you would see the neck pocket continue down to the neck pickup. My guess is Series 2000.

The first time a bass tone really stood out for me and really struck me was when listening to The Gathering's album "How to measure a planet". It came out in 1998, and I got it for my 16th birthday. The albums before HTMAP were very much metal, and I was kinda expecting more of that, but was blown away by their new musical direction and the tone of all the instruments on the album. I really really really wanted to play guitar back then, but instead found myself playing air bass to the distorted riff that begins at 4:40: I believe it is a Stingray through a distortion pedal, and it's not particularly nice but it's bright and fat and saturated and it really hit me.

I think that's a Status Eclipse Artist 🙂

Interesting position of the lower strap button on the GB! Lovely collection, some proper p0rn there.

Wow, and HH too! They never offered more than the single humbucker version of previous Stingrays. If you wanted more, you had to get a Bongo.

I work as an environmental and geotechnical field engineer for a mid-size consultancy bureau here in the Netherlands. I'm a bachelor in environmental sciences, and through various internships during my studies, ended up specializing in soil and groundwater. I started as a consultant, but gradually discovered the office isn't the right place for me so now I spend my workdays outdoors for most of the time. My work mainly includes conducting soil surveys (by manually drilling into the soil with a hand auger and taking samples of layers, placing monitoring wells and sampling the groundwater) and supervising soil remediation projects. Our company's core business, however, is in soil mechanics and foundation engineering. For this, we have several CPT trucks (cone penetration testing) for testing the bearing capacity of soils for up to 60 metres deep. I can operate these as well, but unfortunately I don't have a truck driving license! I have just taken on a new job opportunity at my company though, and will start working as a project manager for geotechnical and geomonitoring projects somewhere in May.

It's usually recommended to loosen tension on all the strings when adjusting the truss rod anyway 🙂

Danelectro has a lefty Longhorn that's really good fun, and Eastwood built lefty Hi-Flyer basses (Mosrite copy) that are pretty decent. If hollow or semi-hollow is an option too, I'd look at Höfner, Hagstrom (Viking Bass) and possibly that new Schecter that's up on Andertons' site: https://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-dept/bass-guitars/left-handed-bass-guitars/schecter-bass-banshee-bass-owht-lh

Pretty, and I like the Kubicki-like drop D section! Is there a similar switch to lock the lowest string in E? Looks like you can raise a piece of nut behind a fret? Pretty cool!

I played a lefty headless Schack with a graphite neck once, and was struck by how heavy it was! I liked the tone and feel, the neck was wide and thin and really comfortable to my hands.

The Roadster always came without pickguard but, as far as I know, never as a factory fretless for lefties. This is definitely a defretted RS924, the factory fretless was the RS940 and can easily be told apart from the 924 by the lack of fretlines and by tiny off-center dots instead of the regular big dots on the fingerboard. Still a very nice bass in incredibly good condition!

Finally a pickup configuration that matches his old Gibsons 😛

That does ring a bell! Thanks for the heads-up 😀